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I think the worst thing about BE is how easy it is to get to a pop 10 city. It is very difficult to grow really tall but you are pretty much guaranteed a decent city size regardless of tile improvements because of the internal trade routes. The other thing is that you don't really need to build...

Besides, it's kind of in the way because it's blocking a huge part of the knowledge tree.

I think they should probably have added a few extra leaders for the factions because each faction can be a little different depending on the starting bonuses. Replayability will probably be ok though. MP doesn't need ai to begin with and in SP each faction will need to chose an ideology early...

Deity is pretty much the same. I tried it once. I loaded a save 10 turns before the vote. I had about 100 gold and three cs allies. After a few adjustments I was making 1.3k gpt for 10 turns and that's all it took to win. At the same time Brazil was happily sitting on 25k gold reserves and did...

He probably comes from the Middle Ages. Hair color can get you branded as a witch and it is always good if at least one person in the family knows how to count.

I agree. Germany is definitely domination oriented. The Shoshone should also be grouped with civs that are just overall OP.

You are probably right for one of them. The other one stays unimproved even at t197 :D I updated the OP with a screenshot of the land at that point. It's a great start. 4 fish, 1 whale, 3 salt, 1 marble, a river and a nearby mountain. Had that mountain been a tile closer, I would have been done for.

There was no island city so it's probably a bug of some sort.

It still doesn't explain the situation though. He is working at least 3 sea tiles and 2 grassland tiles and has a surplus of 4 food. It would be much better to switch to the whale tile and the fish tile, remove another 3 citizens from the workforce and gain 1 gold and 5 hammers.

I haven't explored all of his territory just yet but from what I can see that's all the desert he's got. That's ok though. Dido has half her tiles in the desert and she is a loyal follower of his religion. Update: Here's a map of his lands. He actually has 4 more inhospitable desert tiles to...

well, he only has 3 other cities and they're kind of small but it'll be hard to catch up to him with that kind of science and production output. I'm going for a domination win and he is supposed to be the second target after Harold but who knows. It'll be good if I can catch him before he gets...

It's on deity. I have never seen a capital go above 20 before t100 let alone get this close to 30. Granted, I've only played the game for about 350 hours but still..

:crazyeye::hatsoff: This has got be some kind of a record Update: Well, I played some more and Jakarta is mine now. Here's his capital right before I conquer it And here's the lay of the land: In retrospect I think this actually makes the game easier in some ways because you can steal...

Great guide. I've never attempted fast victories before so I wanted to try this after I managed a couple of deity wins. It was a resounding success. I had to reload 3 times though (first time was because I had no idea how to get to logistics :D) I'd say the biggest problem by far was the...